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Co-creating knowledge for renewable energy communities: Application to the Italian context

This essay focuses on a participatory process conducted using a knowledge co-creation and policy recommendation tool, based on the use of a participatory workshop with fifteen stakeholders engaged in setting up the first Italian «renewable energy community» (REC). The workshop was built around a forecasting tool («futures triangle»), to envisage possible development scenarios for the new RECs in different socio-territorial Italian contexts, taking into account the conditions and problems encountered at the time. The methodological aspects of the participatory process were analysed to determine ...